Booker T. Washington in Perspective: Essays of Louis R. Harlan (EPUB Single)

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This book, an important companion volume to Louis R. Harlan's prize-winning biography of Booker T. Washington, makes available for the first time in one collection Harlan's essays on the life and career of the celebrated black leader. Written over a span of a quarter of a century, they present a remarkably rich and complex look at Washington, the educator and leading precursor of the Civil Rights Movement who rose from slavery to be the dominant force in black America at the opening of the twentieth century. Harlan's mastery of biography is revealed in essays printed here exploring the nature of biographical writing. Readers interested in the art of historiography and biography will find here Harlan's essays detailing his experience in crafting his acclaimed biography of Washington, which received two Bancroft Awards, the Beveridge Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Booker T. Washington in Perspective reveals Harlan as historian and biographer in the essays that were the prelude to his masterwork.
Copyright:
1988

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781628467666
Related ISBNs:
9781578069286, 9780878053742
Publisher:
University Press of Mississippi
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Copyrighted By:
the University Press of Mississippi
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Raymond W. Smock

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